The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-03

from 80 TO 100 feet in few hours if it is
thought best to change the location. A
house Sx16 feet will accommodate from
twelve to fifteen store hogs through the
winter, and is large enough to fatten ten
large hogs il. The bill of lumber for a
house Of this size, built as l direct, is as
follows:
Feet
Five iosts, by 10 in and l6 It long
Floor and 2l0
-Four corner posts, by q
Plates and nail so
Nine raitels, by in and It loBg............ 81
Siding, inch
Total amount OF lumper required.
This, at s1.75 per 100 feet, will cost
SIG -, to which add ZOO shingles at s. 10,
and 81 for nails and hinges, and it brings
the total cost of material for the house to
81 As. The farmer, if he will follow my
directions, need not employ a carpenter to
build such house, and two hands can
complete one in two days or less.
After the founcation is ready-1hich
may be locust posts set well in the ground,
bowlde S, or masonry IL preferred-place
your short stills across the ends and level
them, ana then set the floor joists on the
sills, so that the two outside ones will
come exactly TO the ends of the stills.
Bridge the joist in the center, and then
lay the floor. A floor of inch lumber, laid
double, is much better than one of two
inch planks, and will cost less, for the
lining can be laid with cracks three or
four inches wide.
After the floor is laid cut your posts =
feet high for the rear and Z = for the trout.
Saw them perfectly square at both ends;
set them up at the corners, and fasteu
them down by what toe carpenters call
''toe-nailing;" then spike 2x4 ,studding to
the tops front and rear. For a plate, put
up your two end rafIers, setting them ex-
actly flush with the stills. so that the wealth
boarding will be nailed to the sill at the
bottom and the rafter at the top. You will
need one run of nall-ties, which can be
ship-lappsd to the posts, and when
these are up you are ready to cover the
building.
Use siding II feet long for covering it,
and it will cut one length for the front and
one for the rear. The roof of this house
slopes but one way, and it is best to have
t le iront-Or high part of the roof-towsrd
either the west or the south. IL the roof is
made to project little and finished with a
light cornice, it will present quite good
appearance.
Make good trough aud fasten it secure
". l have never found anything better
than good Vtrough; the front of it should
be OF Iwo-inch lumber, but the back part,
which comes against the side Of the build
ing, may be one inch. 1t is next to lmpos-
sible 10 keep hogs clean and the house free
from bad odors if they are confined to q
single floor; but by making an outside pen
with board floor, from twelve to eighteen
inches lower Than the feeding floor, and
ket piBg il always supplied with an abs ,rb-
ant. have no difficulty in keeping my
Lighthouses from becoming malodorous. So
l Away raise the floor of the main house,
and then lay hoor of nearly the same size,
either at the rear or one end of the house.
as this floor need not be laid double, il
will take but 12S feet OF lumber to make
it, and it can rest on any cheap old scant-
lipgs throws fat on. the ground for mud.
sills. IDclose ii with substantial fence,
made without cracks, and furnish theshogs
some old straw or corn fodder as often as
they require it, and they will enjoy work,
ing it over and will shred 1t up and make
good manure of it sooner than any otheT
stock.
The hogs will sometimes keep the maiu
house clean themselves, but if they do not
it is easy to clean il out and throw 1t into
the outside pen. This outside pen should
be so located that wagon can be driven OF
backed up to il easily to clean il out, as ii
will need to be emptied frequently, and il
it is placed at the end of the house instead
of the rear, you should use stills sixteen
feet long and joists eight feet, SO as to have
the floor boards run lengthwise of the
house, as it will be much easier to clean il
out as the manure can be scrapsd length
wise of the boards than if the shovel must
run across them.
Every hog.house of this size should be
provided with movable partition. SO
that il can be divided into two parts when
| dasired, as an apartment eight feet square
is large enough for d SOW to farrow in. Two
short posts, two by four inches, can be sci
up, front and rear, and just far enough
apart so that an inch board can be dropped
between them, and three boards, foot
wide will make the partition. To prevent
hogs from lifting them out, bore half
II ch hole just above the top board in one
of the posts, at each end, and put in q
stout pin. If it is desired to rave room
for corn above, use longer posts, say twelve
feet for the front and nine for the rear,
and use two by six lumber for nail ties and
two by eight ioist, cross wise of the build
ing, to support the upper floor. This will
give room, at a very small expense, to store
about one hundred bushels of corn above
the hogs.
If but one hog-bouse is built it should he
located adjoining the barnyard, so that the
hogs can be let out at pleasure to work
over the manure, as hogs in the barnysrd,
st the proper time, are OF great advantage
TO the manure, butt is not safe to keep
them there with horses and cattle, as they
are in danger of being crippled. prefer
to hapg doors for q hog house, with the
hinges at the top, so that in opening them
you turn them up out of the way of the
hogs, es If swung around like q common
door, the hogs will run against them and
often break the hinges.
Perhaps some of my readers will think
such hog-house too cheap, and build of
too light material, but please remember
that in small building like this every
board is brace, and there is no need for
heavy timber. My oldest house has been
built twenty years, and 1 have removed
the floor once at an expense OF about 81,
and the frame seems as substantial as
when first built. have seen hog houses
made of heavy timber and everything
moriised and put together as strong as
would be needed for p barn 100 feet lnng.
and the frame of So h a building alone
cost merry as much as my hog house
complete. By building two of these
houses facing each other, eight to ten feet
apart, and roofing and inclosipg the space
between them, a large and convenient
feed room can be made at very small ex-
pense.